That's right… after a 21 year absence, I took the family to Tibble Fork up American Fork Canyon. We even stayed in the beloved Granite Flat campground where we stayed when I was a kid.
The fishing wasn't so good… only caught two fish, but it was better than nothing!
Here's some photos of the trip:
In an effort to write my entire life history a little bit at a time, I thought I would start with my very first memory. It goes like this:…
I was about two or so and was visiting my Grandma Service. I was crying for some unknow reason and was carrying around two Kerr canning rings. Where I got those, I have no clue, but I was chewing on them and can still taste the metal in my memory. I walked into my grandmother's living room and looked up through my teary eyes to see her take a picture of me… She was all blurry and looked like she was glowing. The picture may be the reason I remember everything so vividly.
Here is a drawing I did of the memory for a college art class:
… If I find the photo she took of me, I will update this post with it.
So, a few weeks back, we had a lesson in our Elder's Quorum about the importance of journaling… And it dawned on me that I have journaled a sum total of about 7 days in my whole life. And those 7 days came as a requirement for cub scouts!
It's ironic that a web geek like me hasn't decided to blog until now, but the lesson we had struck a chord… now I will catalog my life for future generations through my written words, videos, photos… and maybe the occasional song. But I won't dance. Sorry.
Hopefully, I can keep on top of things and write at least once a week. I promise to have a whole section devoted to "memories" of the past that will reconstruct (as much as I can remember) my entire life from day one. Should be interesting.
Enjoy.
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At least that's what the sign said on the way into the state…
On Thursday, July 27th, the boys and I took a trip to McPhee Reservoir near Dolores, Colorado. We met my buddy from Arizona (Myke) and his two children, Zoe and Nolan for a long weekend of fun. Fun included fishing, boating in rubber rafts, riding bikes, eating marshmallows and my favorite: Checking out the "cliff dweller" Indian ruins at Mesa Verde. Did you know there are 600+ cliff ruins on that mesa? It boggles the mind when you are actually there staring down into the canyons full of all the alcoves that house the ruins. Then, there are THOUSANDS of other sites on top of the mesa… and all were strangely vacated about 800 years ago.
As you can see by the pictures, we had lots of fun… and lots of rain. The last night we were there, it rained about an inch and a half on us… not to mention the wind and the marble sized hail that broke up our game of campsite baseball! We all retired to our camp trailer to watch Napoleon Dynamite for the 78th time. On the way home we passed by Moab and the Arches National Monument in Utah. Here's a photo of "Wilson's Arch"… in panorama baby!
Check out this hysterical video of Ethan taking a dip in the lake:
The video is 3.4MB so it may take a minute to start playing once you hit the play button. If you want to just download it, right click HERE and "save target as" to your harddrive.
The morning we left for home we all looked like this:
